you are right! it seems IE set the value of the submit button variable
differently if you hit <enter> than if you click on the button. (i tried
clicking and it works fine)
i modified the script as you suggested from if($submit) {
to if( "$code" != "" ) { and everything works fine now.
thanks again
- bruce
--- Andrew McMillan <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 18:02, Bruce Young wrote:
> > Still wont work. did a few tests and it seems like Explorer wont print the
> > table when i use a form variable. the script will notify if there are no
> > results, but nothing if any. - no table
> > oh, and what info in phpinfo() would i need to look at if its the prob.?
>
> >From your code, it looks like the table won't be printed if $submit is
> not set (although your code is perhaps weak on checking the value of
> that variable).
>
> I have seen cases where IE will set the value of a submit button
> variable differently if you hit <enter> within the form, than if you
> click on the button with your mouse.
>
> Remember, your comments accusation of "does/doesn't work in IE" is not
> actually true - all of this code runs on the _server_ - not the client.
> All that IE or Mozilla does is provide values for variables input to the
> script: the script runs on the same server in both cases.
>
> In any case in the phpinfo() I would look for differences in the value
> of the "submit" variable. Obviously differences in the value of the
> "code" variable would have an effect as well, but are possibly less
> likely.
>
> You may want to lose the javascript too, to simplify debugging. That
> stuff _does_ run on the client, so may behave differently on Mozilla and
> IE. Personally I avoid DHTML like the plague (because it is so prone to
> browser-specific problems) and so I don't know what your fragment is
> supposed to achieve.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew.
>
> > thanks
> >
> > =====================================
> > <html lang="en">
> > <head> <title>Code Search</title>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <center>
> >
> > <table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"
> > bgcolor="lightblue">
> > <form name="campcode" method="post" action="<?php print("$PHP_SELF");?>">
> > <tr height=30><td>Search:</td><td><input type="text" name="code"></td>
> > <td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search"></td></tr>
> > </form></table>
> > </center>
> > <br><br>
> > <?php
> > $dbconnect = pg_connect("dbname=campus user=apache");
> > //$code_query = $code;
> > $code = strtolower($code);
> > if($submit) {
>
> You could change that to:
> if ( "$code" != "" ) {
>
>
> > if($code=="") {print "You need to enter a query!"; exit;}
> >
> > //WORKS in Explorer
> > $qry_get_camp_codes = "select id,name from campuslist where name ilike
> > lower('%HOUSTon%')";
> > //DONT WORK in Explorer
> > //$qry_get_camp_codes = "select id,name from campuslist where name
> ilike
> > lower('%$code%')";
> > $result = pg_query ($dbconnect, $qry_get_camp_codes);
> > if (!$result) {printf ("Error\n"); exit;}
> > if (!pg_numrows($result)) { echo "<font color=\"red\" size=4>no
> > result</font>"; exit;}
> > print "<center>";
> > print "<table border=1>";
> > print "<tr><td>ID</td><td>NAME</td></tr>";
> > while($myrow = pg_fetch_row($result)) {
> > printf ("<tr><td>%s</td><td>%s</td></tr>"
> > , $myrow[0], $myrow[1]);
> > }
> > printf ("</table></center>
> > ");
> > }
> > pg_close($dbconnect);
> > ?>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
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